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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3061073" data-attributes="member: 18549">First of all, a D&D chess set is completely unrelated to D&D.  It's a chess set.  It could be a Magical Trevor chess set or a Teletubbies chess set and it would have about as much to do with D&D as the D&D chess set.Secondly, I'm quite certain that there are about forty billion products out there that someone wants to sell me that I can get along just fine without.  Like cellular phones, or gold credit cards, or pewter wizard figurines.  That I don't know about them is an excellent thing.  If I have the need for something, I say to myself, "why don't they make this thing I need?  Wait, maybe if I Google it..." and if it exists I can locate and purchase it.  Like replacement blades for my Rolls Razor.  Those are not advertised anywhere that I've ever seen, but I know where to order them from because I'm smart enough to use the intarwebs to find them.  Marketers only need to advertise stuff that I don't want to buy, because if I want to buy it, I'll find it.  Sending me card stock makes me less likely to buy whatever the hell it is they're trying to sell me, partly because I know that they're so desperate to sell whatever widget they're hawking that they're willing to spend thousands of dollars to mail the cards out.  That tells me that they think the product won't move itself otherwise, which means that it's probably crap.  If the product were good enough to sell itself, all they'd have to do is put it up on the WotC website and the Dragon Magazine quarterly catalogue, and people would buy it.  That's how it works with their books, because their books aren't just a bunch of crap.  They are actually something I might want to buy.  But I don't get info on the books from WotC's ads anyway.  I know that every single book they publish will be advertised as the greatest thing since sliced bread.  I get info and reviews from places like ENWorld, and use it to make informed decisions.  Deciding to buy anything based on an advertisement is about the dumbest thing I can imagine myself doing.  Ads aren't going to be honest about whether I will like the product.  The marketers want me to buy stuff regardless of whether I actually want it.  Ads are not to be trusted, and the appropriate response to ads is scepticism.  In my case, I supplement scepticism with offense that they think I'm dumb enough to base my purchasing decision on an ad.</blockquote>

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